May 31, 2018
Woke to a mist of rain yesterday, long enough for puddles (and wet dogs) but light enough for flowers to collect individual drops.
May 30, 2018
Daisy not only outweighs Walt, she's more solidly built, and with a lower center of gravity. But Walt's the better tactician (and they both really love this game) so their slow-motion wrestling match remains open-ended, continuing day after day without ever reaching a decisive conclusion.
May 28, 2018
It turns out that this year there are three siblings in the hawk's nest.
May 27, 2018
As the marine layer lifts and the clouds retreat there's suddenly more room for light and the colors begin to come back.
May 26, 2018
A couple of fly-bys over the ball fields of Bluffs Park last weekend, then gone.
May 25, 2018
Lately it seems like a new flotilla of ducklings makes its debut every few days.
May 22, 2018
Evening comes to Paradise Cove.
May 21, 2018
Several weeks into May Gray (and with June Gloom still tk) the need for bright colors comes over you.
May 20, 2018
Here's the baby Labrador using the power of her mind to (successfully) move dinner time up by five minutes.
May 19, 2018
The back of a traffic sign on the median at Trancas Road:
...continues to be popular with sticker artists 14 months later.
May 18, 2018
Headed up a favorite trail in Solstice Canyon yesterday, not the crowded superhighway to the ruins but a shorter walk, wooded and green with an abundant canopy and constant birdsong. It's a little weird because for the second day in a row we come across a drift of hawk feathers, torn up enough to show that something bad happened. But that's the natural world, really, something bad is always happening to someone, and we walk on.
We've just cleared a few fallen logs, reached the bend in the trail where the canyon closes in and the sky tightens up when suddenly there's a scream from the stream bed below. It's high and shrill and arcs through an octave, the top notes still there as the low notes chime in. Thank goodness the dogs stay when I tell them to.
It's not easy to do the recommended retreat, slow and steady, don't show your back, but we manage it. There's another scream but from further away so no, we're not being followed.
At home later, the cougar cries I find online sound a lot like what we just heard. The dogs stare at the computer, on high alert, not at all happy.
May 17, 2018
After days and days of morning gray, a (brief, I hope) change in the weather.
May 16, 2018
It's duckling season at the various streams and ponds here at the coast and every once in a while, a surprise arrival.
May 15, 2018
There are plenty of wildflowers that are brighter or fancier or showier, but these tiny purple ones, their faces the size of a pomegranate seed, are among my favorites.
May 14, 2018
I want to say that it's going to be all hawk chicks, all the time, but the truth is they're growing so quickly that before you know it, it'll be sad sighs and a photo of an empty nest.
Lately, the mornings here begin like this.
May 12, 2018
World-class lounge? We can't lose?
May 11, 2018
Not the steadiest video but still fun to see the hawk chicks biding their time while the parents are gone.
May 10, 2018
The dogs and wild parrots and coveys of quail, the finches and crows and squirrels, the lizards and bees and coyotes and dragonflies were all busy with important tasks, but for me at that moment, as the breeze shifted and the sun slanted through it was all pure, tender, just-for-a-moment spring green.
May 9, 2018
I just want to camp out and watch the comings and goings of the fierce adults as they care for their fluffy and fuzzy little brood.
May 8, 2018
When it comes to color, the marine layer acts like a mute button.
May 7, 2018
Spring green makes its annual retreat as the rains (what there was of them) end and summer heat edges in.
May 6, 2018
Stop! Don't! Come back! (Seriously, please come back.)
May 5, 2018
Green Thumb, the best garden center you may not know about, helps you live your best life.
May 4, 2018
When all else fails, the edge of the continent and an endless horizon.
May 3, 2018
Eleven years later and it's still not 'soon'.
Throwback Thursday
Vacant lot in Malibu
Taken on April 5, 2007
May 2, 2018
The world-famous Coyote Alert Network in action.
May 1, 2018
The headline says it all.
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